surjithh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: 

Hi All,
I am fairly new to Perl.I am trying to install a Perl module (Filesys:
+:Df.pm) in an IBM AIX5.3.But I am getting the following error:

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abcd3dev# make cc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -O -DVERSION=\"0.92\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.92\" "-I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE" Df.c /bin/sh: cc_r: not found. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 127.

Could anybody please suggest what should done to install this successfully.Any help will be highly appreciated.

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Re: Perl Module Installation
by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 04, 2008 at 11:37 UTC
    Do you have cc_r installed? If so is it in your $PATH? Also, out of interest, which compiler is your version of Perl built with?

    Thanks

    Martin
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Re: Perl Module Installation
by leocharre (Priest) on Aug 04, 2008 at 13:48 UTC
    Have you tried using cpan via the shell/terminal emulator? 
    root@mescaline devel# cpan Filesys::Df
    Works for me.
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